It’s Not just the feast days
Sunday, 9 January 2005, 00:00
Last update: about 12 years ago
Malta Independent
On the face of it, it seemed strange at first that the population of Malta is being called out to protest against a bill that will declare public feasts that fall on a weekend no feasts at all....
Calculating Costs is not rocket science
Sunday, 9 January 2005, 00:00
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
Mr A. A. Camilleri writes again (TMIS, 2 January) in answer to my response (TMIS, 26 December) to his letter (TMIS, 19 December) criticising an article on home heating and the price of kerosene penned by Ms Caruana Galizia (TMIS, 12 December). ...
Words And deeds
Sunday, 9 January 2005, 00:00
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
Has it escaped notice that the brunt of the tsunami catastrophe has fallen on the world’s most populous Muslim country? One that has an active branch of al Qaeda?...
An Act of God - Who is to blame?
Sunday, 9 January 2005, 00:00
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
The devastation caused by the 26 December earthquake and tsunami was one of the biggest natural disaster ever. ...
Let Them buy air-conditioners
Sunday, 9 January 2005, 00:00
Last update: about 12 years ago
Malta Independent
Congratulations to Albert Bezzina (TMIS, 26 December) for taking time off from the Christmas rush to challenge an obnoxious letter written by Alfred A. Camilleri in response to Daphne Caruana Galizia’s aptly titled article, “Where homes are always cold”....
Political Parties’ funding
Sunday, 9 January 2005, 00:00
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
What an obscene and obnoxious sight, seeing our government ministers and parliamentary secretaries handing over thousands of Maltese liri claiming they were given by “hbieb tal-Partit”. ...
Recreational Drugs
Sunday, 9 January 2005, 00:00
Last update: about 12 years ago
Malta Independent
I refer to Juan Ameen’s article entitled “The war on drugs is ‘lost’” (TMIS, 7 November). I’d like to add that the war on drugs was lost before it began. ...
The Insanity of abortion
Sunday, 9 January 2005, 00:00
Last update: about 12 years ago
Malta Independent
Fact: 80 per cent of abortions are carried out after the sixth week and before the 12th week, and most abortions do not occur before the eighth week of development. ...
Who Cares why they give as long as they do so
Sunday, 26 December 2004, 00:00
Last update: about 12 years ago
Malta Independent
Today, thousands of people will be glued to their television sets, watching the hugely popular charity marathon, Strina....
Facts And practice: the sixth seat for the PN
Friday, 24 December 2004, 00:00
Last update: about 12 years ago
Malta Independent
Stephen Cachia, AD secretary general (TMID 22 December), works out his arguments in favour of giving AD the sixth (observer) seat in the European Parliament by applying a quota that assumed that the election was for five seats! This is a contradiction in ...